
Uncanny
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The Importance of Melodrama in Italian Realism
I think there's a way in which we protect ourselves against the uncanny in every day in RL and then while we're in the fiction, we open ourselves up to it. Don't you think it's uncanny a little bit when he has to win Bruno sees him arrest, caught and arrested? I don't know. It's funny, because Hillary just wrote a book on bicycle thieves,. And her point is that without the melodramatic Italian realism, it just falls apart. Yeah. "Fiction has to truck with this position between feeling at home and feeling alienated"
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